Category: Women

Ever because the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea during pregnancy with the longer term Emperor Ojin, stories of girl eastern warriors have emerged from Japan's wealthy background. utilizing fabric that hasn't ever been translated into English ahead of, this booklet offers the tale of Japan's woman warriors for the 1st time, revealing the function of the ladies of the samurai category in all their many manifestations, investigating their guns, gear, roles, education and trust platforms. Crucially, in addition to describing the ladies who have been warriors of their personal correct, like Hauri Tsuruhime and the ladies of Aizu, this e-book additionally appears to be like at events whilst ladies turned the ability at the back of the throne, ruling and warring in the course of the males round them.

May you flee from the lifestyles you reside in in case you might? Connie, Suzy, and Karen did. via their determined makes an attempt to reclaim themselves, the trails of those 3 girls develop into intertwined. They strengthen a friendship and sisterhood enhanced than any of them imagined. Refusing to enable each other face any in their hardships by myself, they set out jointly on a trip towards discovery, wish, and freedom. yet what they don't anticipate are the heartaches, betrayals, and shattered lives that lie waiting.

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During my trip I've met a few striking girls who have been sufferers of family abuse. i used to be surprised at what percentage myths bearing on this subject proceed to span throughout many years. The humiliation, worry, lack of knowledge, and the preferred "I don't are looking to get involved" from others, retains the abuse going. operating from Beige took me 3 years to write down. i discovered myself stepping clear of the publication as my very own painful stories flooded in, in addition to the grief for my acquaintances who didn't make it out alive. This booklet is my method of delivering braveness, power, and wish to girls. Many kinds of abuse are delivered to the outside in working from Beige. If you're in an abusive state of affairs, name the police and inform no less than another individual. You don't must be on my own. this can be a paintings of fiction.

While it first seemed, Nancy Friday's taboo-shattering bestseller "My mystery backyard" created a combined typhoon of shock and pleasure. these girls who feared their erotic fantasies known as it pornographic. these girls who learn it well-known in its pages the hidden content material in their personal sexuality. extra outspoken and image than any e-book prior to its time, "My mystery backyard" speedy grew to become a vintage examine of lady sexuality. this day, multiple million girls hail this dazzling research as a groundbreaking booklet -- a freeing strength including a brand new measurement to their sexual fantasies and lives.

This ebook engages with modern Arab ladies writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. even with Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the asymmetric courting among the West and the Arab international in Orientalism, there was little postcolonial feedback of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos raises the profile of Arab girls writers by way of examining how they negotiate contexts and reports that experience turn out to be pointed out with postcoloniality resembling the preoccupation with Western feminism, political clash and warfare, the social results of non-conformity and feminine empowerment, and the negotiation of influential cultural discourses equivalent to orientalism.

NEW YORK occasions BESTSELLER • In a small city at the verge of massive switch, a tender girl reveals deep secrets and techniques approximately her family members and unforeseen truths approximately herself. jam-packed with insights which are the hallmark of Anna Quindlen’s bestsellers, Miller’s Valley is an emotionally robust tale a couple of kin you are going to by no means forget. For generations the Millers have lived in Miller’s Valley. Mimi Miller tells approximately her lifestyles with intimacy and honesty. As Mimi eavesdrops on her mom and dad and quietly observes the folks round her, she discovers a growing number of concerning the toxicity of relatives secrets and techniques, the risks of gossip, the failings of marriage, the inequalities of friendship and the dangers of ardour, loyalty, and love. domestic, as Mimi starts to gain, might be “a position the place it’s simply as effortless to consider misplaced because it is to consider content.”

Miller’s Valley is a masterly learn of family members, reminiscence, loss, and, eventually, discovery, of discovering precise id and a brand new imaginative and prescient of domestic. As Mimi says, “No one ever leaves the city the place they grew up, whether they go.” Miller’s Valley reminds us that where the place you grew up can disappear, and the folks in it too, yet all will continue to exist on your middle forever.

Praise for the bestselling fiction of Anna Quindlen “Anna Quindlen is aware that each one the issues we'll ever be are available in a few forgotten fragment of family.”—The Washington Post, about item Lessons

“There comes a second in each novelist’s profession whilst she . . . ventures into new territory, breaking unfastened right into a marriage of tone and elegance, of plot and characterization, that’s completely her personal. Anna Quindlen’s wonderful romantic comedy of manners is simply this sort of booklet. . . . Quindlen has introduced a unique that may have endurance all its own.”—The manhattan instances booklet Review, about nonetheless existence with Bread Crumbs

“Anna Quindlen writes approximately family members with all of the humanity, wit, and discomfort of going home.”—Wendy Wasserstein, approximately One precise Thing

“Anna Quindlen is America’s resident Sane individual. She has what Joyce referred to as the typical contact, the facility to talk to many of us approximately what’s on their minds sooner than they've got the vaguest thought what’s on their minds.”—The ny Times, about Blessings

“Quindlen is familiar with phrases, and she or he is familiar with women.”—More, about Rise and Shine

“Quindlen’s writing . . . wraps the reader within the heat and familiarity of household life.”—TheSeattle Times, about Every final One

The endangered and hazardous woman figures of Rebecca, of Jagged Edge and What Lies Beneath have a deserved and enduring fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines those gothic heroines of Hollywood and their meanings, in of Hollywood's key universal cycles, movie noir and the feminine gothic film. Starting initially, with the beginning of those cycles and the ways that they represented ladies within the American movie and tradition of the Nineteen Forties, she lines their revival in neo-noir and neo-gothic motion pictures from the Nineteen Eighties to the present. She additionally locations the feminine figures of the femme fatale, lady investigator and gothic heroine in the moving contexts of the movie and debates in feminist movie criticism. Hanson examines quite a lot of movies from either sessions, together with Suspicion, Gaslight and Pacific Heights, and provides specific cognizance to their presentation of girl tales, activities and perspectives. She finds a variety of lady figures, representations and activities in movie noir and the feminine gothic movie, and argues that those ladies are a part of a negotiation of lady identities, wishes and roles throughout an extended old period. Hollywood Heroines bargains us new methods of considering vintage and modern Hollywood heroines, and in regards to the interrelationships of gender and genre.

In an more and more globalized international of collapsing monetary borders and lengthening formal political and criminal equality rights, lively citizenship has the capability to extend in addition to deepen. while, with the increase of neo-liberalism, welfare kingdom retrenchment, decline of country employment, re-privatization and the emerging hole among wealthy and negative, the commercial, social and political citizenship rights of definite different types of individuals are more and more curtailed. This booklet examines the complexity of citizenship in ancient and modern contexts. It attracts on empirical learn from a variety of nations, contexts and techniques in addressing ladies and citizenship in a global/local international and covers a variety of numerous concerns, either current and previous, to incorporate immigration, ethnicity, category, nationality, political and financial participation, associations and the personal and public spheres. This wealthy assortment informs our knowing of the pitfalls and percentages for girls within the patience and alterations in the contours of citizenship.

Quietly and progressively, the variety of girls making six figures or extra is expanding and keeps to upward push at a cost swifter than for males. From marketers to company executives, from white-collar execs to freelancers and part-timers, girls are forging careers with huge monetary luck.

Based on large examine and countless numbers of interviews, together with greater than a hundred and fifty ladies whose annual gains diversity from $100,000 to $7 million, Barbara Stanny turns all the six-figure characteristics right into a particular procedure for upping gains. by means of conscientiously fine-tuning them, readers can, step by step, climb the source of revenue ladder.

"Berger movingly information her trip to therapeutic. Her indefatigable quest...underscores the truth that there is not any such factor as one measurement matches all in medicine."―Gayatri Devi, MD, medical affiliate professor, NYU institution of drugs, and writer of A Calm Brain

Taking cost of your health and wellbeing hasn't ever been so vital because it is today.

Jody Berger has chanced on this primary hand: at forty-three, the award-winning journalist and marathoner sees a physician a few minor tingling sensation in her arms and toes. One MRI later, she is clinically determined with a number of sclerosis and advised to choose a drug and settle for her destiny. in its place Jody starts off asking questions―only to obtain a unique analysis from every one professional she turns to, from nutrition deficiencies to steel toxicity to melancholy.

In this strong, witty, and eye-opening account of her misadventures from misdiagnosis to striking restoration, Jody bargains insightful how you can ask medical professionals the best inquiries to get the solutions and remedy you wish, hearken to your physique, and select well-being over sickness. in the end, whereas we will not continually heal, we will be able to continually take keep watch over of our health and wellbeing and ourselves―starting now.

"In this compelling, fantastically written booklet, Jody Berger deals an empowering examine the significance of discovering the power and self assurance to take cost of your health."―Mary Shomon, New York Times bestselling writer and sufferer advocate

W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how 9 interesting ladies encouraged a lot of W.B. Yeats's poetry. those girls are rather vital simply because Yeats perceived them when it comes to ideals approximately poetic thought corresponding to the Greek inspiration nice poet is galvanized and possessed via the female voices of the Muses. stimulated by way of the Pre-Raphaelite concept of girl as 'romantic and mysterious, nonetheless the priestess of her shrine', Yeats chanced on his Muses in residing girls. His terribly lengthy and fruitful poetic occupation was once fuelled via passionate relationships with ladies to and approximately whom he wrote a few of his such a lot compelling poetry. The e-book summarizes the various Muse traditions that have been congenial to Yeats and indicates how his conception of those ladies as Muses underlies his poetry. Newly to be had letters and manuscripts are used to discover the artistic method and interpret the poems.

Because Yeats believed that lyric poetry 'is no rootless flower, however the speech of a man,' exploring the connection among poem and Muse brings new coherence to the poetry, illuminates the method of its construction, and unlocks the 'second attractiveness' to which Yeats referred whilst he claimed that 'works of lyric genius, whilst the conditions in their beginning is understood, achieve a moment a attractiveness, passing because it have been out of literature and changing into life.'

As existence emerges from the literature, the Muses are proven to be shiny, multi-faceted personalities who shatter the belief of the foundation as a passive stereotype and take their right position as begetters of undying poetry.